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Ruritanian romantic, former Master of Assassins, drawer of ROOF BEARS, huer of colors, scanner living in vain, universal monster
Oct 23 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
one of the things most people probably haven't noticed in THE TERMINATOR (1984) is that the HUNTER KILLERS (the non-humanoid shaped killer robots of the future) are cops Image
Image even the flying robots are cops - the movie is rich in detail - and one of the details is all about the dehumanization that cops put onto non-cops
Aug 25 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
on the podcast today @JonWeichsel pointed to Madonna's "Material Girl" (1985) as a response to Marilyn Monroe's performance of DIAMONDS ARE A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND from GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (1953), which was itself spawned from a 1925 novel by Anita Loos
Aug 13 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
i often praise THE TAMING OF THE SHREW. a couple of recent things i note about it are how, the opening of ACT 1 SCENE 1 makes more sense - what with LUCENTIO infodumping - if the Induction is included. the main play is a play within a play - u can't just cut the Induction without noticing how uncharacteristically infodumpy it is (without some other nod - like Miranda falling asleep when Propsero is infodumping in the beginning of THE TEMPEST).

i further note that Baptista is a fun character - in that when Bianca is mad at Katherine for cockblocking her
Jul 19 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
some of these are pretty cool Image Edgar Allan Poe protagonist Image
Aug 10, 2023 • 23 tweets • 6 min read
am very excited to share this undated (late Victorian era) FULLY ILLUSTRATED Australian spicy novel

GAY LIFE IN MELBOURNE by anonymous

told in 32 racy chapters, it is the tale of... Image ...a girl who is forcibly married, sent to a brothel and makes friends with another girl there and then escape together but not before a series of thrilling events Image
Jul 22, 2023 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
preshow shownotes for an upcoming SFFaudio Podcast:

-a female take

-The Charwoman's Daughter

-you don't need to have a daughter

- @PrinceJvstin disagrees

-Jesse knew Paul would have that response

-not always perfect predictions

-some kind of hero

-a retelling from the POV -A Princess Of Mars' Daughter

-astronaut's wife, astronaut's daughter

-elided, minimized, dismissed, not seen

-reframing and having them centered

-that's the theory

-the intent to provide different points of view

-the ace trope

-making challenges less impressive
Dec 5, 2021 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
extracts from the shownotes for tonight's podcast:

salivating over every remaining sentence,

we're all stupid and lazy,

a Serbian knight,

the love interest gets heart stabbed,

a big drunk dummy,

a big dumb oaf,

hawk nosed pantherish condor wings, very Riders Of Rohan,

a chestful of head,

the cur has pups,

our Germanic dumb guy,

these are philosophical stories about how to be,

leaning in to what makes it unique vs. leaning into the surface details,

this is the Brotherhood without Banners in Khitai,
Dec 4, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Podcast listener asks in an email if we have ever done (or maybe ever will do a Terry Pratchett book)

here's my answer: "No, I haven't pracheted. Paul [ @PrinceJvstin ] said something recently, in a DM about whether I was right about not doing NINE PRINCES IN AMBER, by Zelazny.

And that got me to thinking: There are a lot of books that aren't really meant to be thought about, rather just enjoyed
Dec 4, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Dreamt a lost friend returned to my life, but was troubled by dark thots. I took him to get help, but we were waylaid along the way by an old nemeis with old nemesisism. South of certain street we were forced into underground but I dragged my despairing friend ahead. itwas there I was forced into combat with the nemesis, and was challenged with the lance. I didn't want to kill but needed a defense. The onslaught was unrelenting, and so finally I impaled my old foe through the shoulder. He laughed, but did not die. I thrust the harder and the shoulder
Dec 4, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
A ROOF BEAR GROUP STORY:
"How They Lost And Found Captain Curtain" by Jesse

Baby Roof Bear was taking forever to finish reading a Captain Curtain comic, and because he was lingering with it Skeleton Dude got really mad. Suddenly, SD grabbed the comic from BRB and they got into a messy skirmish, this resulted in BRB getting a bruise, SD getting a bone bruise, Coffee Cat spilling some of her precious coffee, and the comic getting thrown out the attic window.
Dec 3, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Dr David H. Keller delivers a bit of a dud in THE HIDDEN MONSTER, first published in ORIENTAL STORIES, Summer 1982

Prof. Charles Quarley takes a sabbatical and goes undercover as a "Chinaman" in Chinatown to investigate a new Chinese religion - the worship of a "Hidden Monster" Image Though a bit of a misfire, in my view, I do like the setup, what with the professor eating a lot of carrots to make his skin yellow, and going undercover as a killer, he also joins a Tong!
Oct 19, 2021 • 53 tweets • 12 min read
the STAR TREK episode "The Paradise Syndrome" is another visit to a space version of Tahiti - an alluring, enticing, and heavenly planet where peace and love rule and where sexual repression and alienating labour are wholly absent MCCOY: What's the matter, Jim?

KIRK: What? Oh, nothing. It's just so peaceful, uncomplicated. No problems, no command decisions. Just living.

MCCOY: Typical human reaction to an idyllic natural setting. Back in the twentieth century, we referred to it as...
Oct 18, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
all the stories from the OXFORD BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION that are on the #PUBLICDOMAIN PDF Page:

Second Dawn by Arthur C. Clarke
24 pages from Science Fiction Quarterly, August 1951

narration time would be 1 hour 18 minutes The Tunnel Under The World by Frederik Pohl

33 pages from GALAXY, January 1955

NARRATION TIME WOULD BE 1 HOUR 17 MINUTES
Oct 18, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
the OCR wasn't perfect but...

THE SCREWFLY SOLUTION by James Triptree, Jr.

from ANALOG, June 1977

is approx. 8,294 words

Reading Time: 30 minutes 9 seconds

Speaking Time: 46 minutes 4 seconds here's the Oddcast audio drama adaptation of

THE SCREWFLY SOLUTION by James Triptree, Jr.

Oct 18, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
from an email about the latest SFFaudio Podcast:

"Thanks so much; I used to read 'Boys Life'

You are right, Jesse - Heinlein's personality (self reliant non specialist) is a Boy Scout's mentality ... [re the] Population Bomb-you make me chuckle; wouldn't it be nice if a book could make tremendous changes possible. That point might make a good podcast; which books caused significant changes? Missing = black people? It is amazing to me that
Oct 17, 2021 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
yesterday we recorded a podcast on THE GODDESS OF ATVATABAR, an 1892 HOLLOW EARTH novel by William R. Bradshaw

I found it really cool, with lots of fun SCIENCE FICTION ideas, near the start and end, and also a tremendous wasteland of spiritualism masturbation in the middle subtitled:

BEING THE
HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY
OF THE
INTERIOR WORLD
AND
CONQUEST OF ATVATABAR

it clearly informs Edgar Rice Burroughs' AT THE EARTH'S CORE, but with sexually frustrated preistesses in place of psychic lesbian dinosaur ladies Image
Oct 17, 2021 • 23 tweets • 7 min read
here's a VOX Lovecraft Explainer that links to a site that links to the SFFaudio PDF page listing the H.P. Lovecraft stories and poems scanned from issues of WEIRD TALES

vox.com/culture/213639… Image here's the citation and the link within the article
lovecraftzine.com/2015/07/29/sca… Image
Oct 17, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Dreamt I was in a ferry ship in the North Sea headed to Britain at night we took a meal during a storm and as we sat down to eat it the ship started rolling, when k looked out the window there was a massive whirlpool forming. There was a wave of panic among the passengers but I was more worried about finding my car on the vehicle decks. What deck did we park on? What did the car look like? I didn't know. while the ship listed from side to side in the storm various carts & bags rolled down the aisles. Somehow this reminded me of the high grass wasteland